A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, Volume 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 - English language |
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... Prior . As Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians , so it is manifest from this chap- ter , that St. Paul was a great master in all the 2. Skill in any thing good or bad . learning of the Greeks . Bentley The remedies , if ...
... Prior . As Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians , so it is manifest from this chap- ter , that St. Paul was a great master in all the 2. Skill in any thing good or bad . learning of the Greeks . Bentley The remedies , if ...
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... Prior . The man who struggles in the fight , Fatigues left arm as well as right . LEFT - HANDED . adj . [ left and hund . ] Using the left hand rather than right . The limbs are used most on the right - side , whereby custom helpeth ...
... Prior . The man who struggles in the fight , Fatigues left arm as well as right . LEFT - HANDED . adj . [ left and hund . ] Using the left hand rather than right . The limbs are used most on the right - side , whereby custom helpeth ...
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... Prior . Hysterical affections are contracted by acci- dents in lying in . These are not places merely of favour , the charge of souls , lies upon them ; the greatest ac count whereof will be required at their hands . Bacon . It should ...
... Prior . Hysterical affections are contracted by acci- dents in lying in . These are not places merely of favour , the charge of souls , lies upon them ; the greatest ac count whereof will be required at their hands . Bacon . It should ...
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... Howe'er ' tis well that while mankind Through life's perverse meanders errs , He can imagin'd pleasures find , To combat against real cares . Dryden Prior . 3 Then avarice ' gan through his veins to inspire His LIE LIF.
... Howe'er ' tis well that while mankind Through life's perverse meanders errs , He can imagin'd pleasures find , To combat against real cares . Dryden Prior . 3 Then avarice ' gan through his veins to inspire His LIE LIF.
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... Prior . The administration of this bank is for life , and partly in the hands of the chief citizens . Addison . 8. The living form : opposed to copies . That is the best part of beauty which a pic- ture cannot express , no , nor the ...
... Prior . The administration of this bank is for life , and partly in the hands of the chief citizens . Addison . 8. The living form : opposed to copies . That is the best part of beauty which a pic- ture cannot express , no , nor the ...
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Addison Ainsworth Arbuthnot Atterbury Bacon Ben Jonson Bentley bird blood body Boyle Brown called cause church chyle Clarendon colour death Dict doth Dryd Dryden Dutch earth Ecclesiasticus eyes fair Fairy Queen fire French give Glanville hand hast hath head heart heav'n honour Hooker Hudibras kind king L'Estrange labour land Latin leave light live Locke look lord low Latin Maccabees manner marcasites matter mean Milt Milton mind motion mouth nature ness never night noun o'er optick pain pass passion peace pear person plant Pope pow'r prince Prior publick Raleigh Saxon sense Shaks Shaksp Shakspeare shew Sidney soul South Spenser spirit stone sweet Swift Tatler thee thing thou thought Tillotson tion tongue tree unto v. a. mis verb virtue Waller Watts Woodward word